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Sharing our challenges, mistakes, hacks, successes, opinions and news

Introducing UI Coverage

Learn how UI Coverage by Cypress enhances your testing strategy by providing visual insights into test coverage, identifying gaps, and optimizing your test suite. Read more

Getting Started with Cypress Component Testing (Vue 2/3)

Getting Start with Cypress Component Testing (Vue 2/3) As of Cypress 7.0, our new Cypress Component Test Runner is bundled with the Cypress Test Runner! It builds on the learnings from the original component testing implementation, which was hidden behind the experimentalComponentTesting flag. In th

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Getting Started with Cypress Component Testing (React)

As of Cypress 7.0, the new Component Test Runner is now bundled with Cypress! It builds on our learnings from the original component testing implementation, which was hidden behind the experimentalComponentTesting flag. In this blog post we will see how to set up the Cypress Component Test Runner in

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Make Cypress Videos Look Old School

Recently, we introduced a trial feature called experimentalRunEvents that simplifies running Node code before or after executing a spec file. Inside your plugin file you can add event hooks to perform operations that need OS access. For example, you could: initialize the database before all tests st

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Live Webcast | How Pendo maintains a culture of quality with Cypress

Register Pendo's product cloud provides user insight, user guidance, and user communication for thousands of digital product teams—all while maintaining a first-class industry reputation. Join us Wednesday, April 7th at 5:00pm GMT/1:00pm EDT/10:00am PDT to find out why Pendo's quality engineers chos

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Webcast Recording | Build, test, and deploy your site with confidence using Netlify and Cypress

Last week, Distinguished Engineer at Cypress, Gleb Bahmutov, and Principal Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify, Jason Lengstorf, presented a live webcast on how to use the Cypress Netlify build plugin to make sure your Jamstack site deploys are bug-free, every time. Some of the key topics they

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Live Webcast | Build, deploy, and test your site with confidence using Netlify and Cypress

Register Developers use Netlify's powerful serverless platform for Jamstack to increase productivity and simplify site building. Join us Thursday, March 18th at 2:30pm EST/11:30am PST to find out how you can easily add Cypress tests to your Netlify workflow to build, deploy, and test efficiently wit

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Generate High-Resolution Videos and Screenshots

This blog post shows how to increase the resolution of the videos and screenshots recorded during the cypress run execution. Videos with higher resolution make debugging simpler and look better when shared with other members of the team. The problem Let's look at the Wikipedia.com website. In my loc

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Testing periodic network requests with cy.intercept and cy.clock combination

This blog post tests an application that fetches new data every 30 seconds, but the test itself runs in milliseconds because it controls the application's clock and stubs the network responses. Note: you can find the source code in the cy.intercept recipe in the repository cypress-example-recipes. A

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When Can The Test Blink?

Let's take a page where a loading element is displayed while the application is fetching the data from the server. If the test is observing the loading element to make sure it disappears, can the loading be too fast? Can the test runner "blink" and miss the element? Yes, it can. In this blog post I

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